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Volume 26 No.4
October - December 2003
Pages: 51 pages
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Table of Contents

Big challenge for small business: sustainability and SMEs

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1. Editorial: The spotlight is turning towards smaller enterprises
2. Small and medium-sized enterprises and sustainability: facts and figures
3. Challenges for SMEs in a globalized world economy - by Michael Kuhndt, Justus von Geibler and Andreas Villar
4. CSR in the Netherlands: changing consumption and production
   patterns - by Jelle Blaauwbroek
5. L'approche collective, de nouvelles solutions pour les PME - by Jean-François Vallès
6. Evolution of a popular SMEs tool: Efficient Entrepreneur calendar becomes The SMART Entrepreneur
7. Networks and tools for SMEs
8. Increasing environmental performance in SMEs with environmental product declaration (EPD) indicators - by Lennart Piper, Mikael Stenius, Maria Carty, Ruth Hillary and Scott Wilson
9. Environmental risk considerations for commercial lenders working with SMEs - by Chris Bray
10. A business model for clean-energy SMEs: small companies' role in eradicating energy waste and energy poverty - by Philip LaRocco
11. How chemical industry initiatives contribute to environmental, safety and health protection in SMEs: an example from BASF - by Carolin Kranz and Ingo Sagasser
12. Cleaner production challenges in Brazilian SMEs - by Ricardo L.P. de Barros, Maria de Fátima F. de Paiva and Cristina L.S. Sisinno
13. SMEs and the environment in Hungary - by Gyula Zilahy

Other topics

1. Sustainable development : improving community relations - by Mindy Hadi

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